US deploying new missiles near NK

[jimnyc]

US to deploy more ground-based missile interceptors as North Korea steps up threatsDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel will announce Friday that the U.S. is deploying 14 new ground-based missile interceptors, probably in Alaska, defense officials told NBC News.

The officials didn't say specifically why the interceptors were being deployed, but the announcement comes as North Korea has been making bellicose threats to void the armistice that ended the Korean War and launch a nuclear attack on the U.S.

The U.S. and South Korea began annual military drills this week despite the North Korean threats.

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[Robert A Whit]

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Despite resistance from Democrats, Reagan prevailed and thanks to that man, this nations greatest president, he gave us a lot more safety than otherwise.

[Syrenn]

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im sure they will go into CA and HI as well.


I have a sneaking suspicion that the nike missal sites were never totally decommissioned either.

[Robert A Whit]

im sure they will go into CA and HI as well.


I have a sneaking suspicion that the nike missal sites were never totally decommissioned either.

Since missiles fly the great circle routes, I am not clear but I have a feeling they would leave S. Cal rather than our end of the state. HI is way South of CA. Korea is not bugging me at the moment.

[Voted4Reagan]

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If I were Kim Yung Dum


i wouldn't worry about 14 missiles in Alaska..

I'd worry about the 24 of them in an OHIO CLASS Boomer 500 miles off his beaches.

http://www.military-today.com/navy/ohio_class.jpg

[aboutime]

The LAST mistake North Korea will make will be when they look up, and see everything they tried to shoot...falling back on them.

The FAT LITTLE IDIOT, and SON of an IDIOT should have every right to fire his missiles.

Our missile systems need more testing, to verify their ACCURACY.

[Kathianne]

Actually North Korea continues to provoke, just today:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iIKlhnZcjJgQn1wy5g42yraCxv5w?docId=CNG.d6315 7c4bf0b8efe535a85cb31d07ea4.361


N. Korea military test-fire short range missiles
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SEOUL — North Korea's military fired short-range missiles into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Friday, Yonhap reported, at a time of heightened tensions following Pyongyang's recent nuclear test.


A single unit of the North's military test-fired the missiles presumed to be KN-02, estimated to have a range of about 120 kilometres (74 miles), the report said.


"The launch was seen as testing its capability for short-range missiles. It seemed to be conducted on a military-unit level, not at a national level," said a military source in Seoul cited by the South Korean news agency.


The South's defence ministry declined to confirm the report.


The tests came a day after North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un oversaw a live-fire artillery drill near the disputed Yellow Sea border with South Korea, as the South's prime minister visited the flashpoint area.

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And those defensive missiles being 'deployed' will take two years. They were scheduled to be in place in 2009, "someone" put them on hold and is now taking some flak for that decision:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324532004578362570462466896.html


WASHINGTON—The Pentagon will spend $1 billion to expand the West Coast-based missile-defense system in a direct response to provocations by North Korea and rising tensions on the Korean peninsula, officials said Friday.


By 2017, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the U.S. would install 14 additional ground-based missile interceptors at Fort Greely, Alaska, representing an increase of nearly 50% over the 30 interceptors now located both there and in California.


The move accentuates new worries that North Korea has accelerated progress in its intercontinental ballistic missile program.

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"The United States has missile-defense systems in place to protect us from limited ICBM attacks, but North Korea in particular has recently made advances in its capabilities and is engaged in a series of irresponsible and reckless provocations," Mr. Hagel said.


Pentagon officials cited recent developments in North Korea—a long-range missile test, a nuclear test and the demonstration of a mobile launcher—that suggested the country's missile technology is advancing faster than earlier predicted.


On Friday, North Korea fired two short-range missiles, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency, a test that appeared to be a response to joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises under way in the region.

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The administration decision to beef up the missile-defense system comes after President Barack Obama (http://topics.wsj.com/person/O/Barack-Obama/4328) put a hold on the plan in 2009 after taking office. Republican lawmakers agreed Friday with the move to reinstate the missile-defense capacity, and said the administration was wrong to freeze the system in 2009.


"Four years ago, the Obama administration began to unilaterally disarm our defenses and deterrent in the hope our enemies would follow suit," said Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Ala.), chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces. "President Obama is finally realizing what President Reagan taught us 30 years ago—the best way to keep the peace is through strength."


Former President Ronald Reagan in March 1983 unveiled his Strategic Defensive Initiative, a project widely known at the time as "Star Wars."


Pentagon officials dismissed the Republican criticism, saying North Korean technology was considerably less developed four years ago.


James Miller, undersecretary of defense for policy, said the U.S. approach is to "stay ahead of the threat," based on North Korean technological capabilities, and not on the regime's rhetoric or intent.


Adm. James Winnefeld, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the system was meant to dissuade North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong Eun (http://topics.wsj.com/person/E/Kim-Jong-Eun/6458), from toying with the idea of an attack.

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Oh yes, this country is in the very best of hands. :rolleyes:

[taft2012]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-15/hagel-to-make-missile-defense-announcement-pentagon-says.html




In addition to deploying the 14 additional interceptors, Hagel reaffirmed the U.S. pledge to deploy in Japan a second TPY-2 missile defense radar made by Raytheon, based in Waltham, Massachusetts (http://topics.bloomberg.com/massachusetts/). He said the administration also will prepare an environmental impact statement that would be needed to build a third missile defense site on the East Coast of the U.S. Lawmakers have called for an East Coast site.

Amazing, eh?

Not being able to drill for oil is one thing, needing the "A-OK" from the Environmental Protection Agency before we're allowed to protect ourselves from nuclear missiles raining down on us is quite another thing.

The liberals have gone stark raving batshit mad.

[aboutime]

If I were Kim Yung Dum


i wouldn't worry about 14 missiles in Alaska..

I'd worry about the 24 of them in an OHIO CLASS Boomer 500 miles off his beaches.

http://www.military-today.com/navy/ohio_class.jpg

V4R. I know this will sound strange. But somehow. I suspect the LITTLE N.Korean Idiot almost hopes the U.S. will drop a few missiles down on him, and his starving, cold, sick people who live in the dark.
It would be a way for him to control the starving population, and homelessness of his threatened, sickly useless people who take up too much space....IN HIS VIEW.

[Robert A Whit]

The idea of the Ohio is to blow up some country.

The Reagan idea was to defend. That is why missiles are in AK to defend this country.

[Robert A Whit]

Hegel's problem is he is promising to do something by 2017.

That is like telling Japan in 1941 that we would solve that problem by 1945. LOL

14 missiles by 2017 Hegel?

Gosh, that scares the pants off N. Korea, huh?